The Road Hosea 6:5: "Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth."
Last night I had a dream–I think it was the longest dream that I have ever had. I was in this city and I met the actor who played Alejandro in the film Sicario. The actor was Benicio del Toro. During the dream, I called him Alejandro (he was a thinner version of Benicio del Toro).
We walked the streets of the city. We talked about the film Sicario. He bought me something to drink–I think it was a cup of coffee. Then we got on this bus. It seemed like a fairly big city–it took a while for the bus to get to this residential neighborhood. We walked up to his apartment where I met his wife. His wife was dressed in white: she had white hair, white skin, she was wearing expensive white clothing; she almost looked non-human, otherworldly; she looked like an angel (Revelation 6:8). They said they had an extra room for me to stay the night. Then the dream ended.
In the film Sicario (2015, directed by Dennis Villenueve), Alejandro was a hitman hired by the CIA to take out this drug cartel boss and his family. At the end of the film, we learn that Alejandro’s wife and daughter were killed by that same cartel in Mexico. Alejandro was a hitman or an assassin. Or else you could say that Alejandro was an Angel of Death. Just before he kills the cartel boss and his family, Alejandro says, “Time to meet God.”
I Thessalonians 5:2: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”
Revelation 6:8: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
Here are three comments I posted on a video where two Green Berets are discussing the film Sicario:
(1) “Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) was one of the most fascinating characters I have seen in a long time. In the beginning of the film, he came across as a loner, a cowboy (the scene where he is standing outside the private jet, looking on into the distance). Kate sees Alejandro taking a nap and he jumps in his seat (flashback)–so now we see he is suffering from some serious PTSD–at the end of the film we discover why (his wife and daughter were killed by the cartel). In that meeting with the Marshals and the Deltas before they pick up the prisoner: Alejandro looks like he is not even listening to the man speaking: he is distracted, thinking about something else. As we can see at the end of the film, Alejandro has one objective in mind: killing the cartel boss and his family.
“The intriguing thing about Alejandro is that he used to be a lawyer; he was trying to use the legal system in Mexico to prosecute the cartel. When his wife and daughter were killed, he changed tactics: he became a hired killer, a hitman, a sicario. Alejandro was lethal and efficient with his sidearm; his skill was surgical; he was emotionless, passionless–he had ice in his veins. Alejandro was brutal, blunt (especially to Emily Blunt) and decisive. He was a wolf in the land of wolves.
“Alejandro: ‘Nothing will make sense to your American ears. . . But in the end, you will understand.'”
(2) “I don’t think I would call Alejandro a psychopath. After Alejandro saw his wife and daughter killed by the cartel, something broke deep within him. As a prosecutor, he was trying to use the legal system in Mexico to go after the cartel. After the death of his wife and daughter, he changed tactics. When civilized diplomacy breaks down, that is when men go to war. Alejandro went to war.”
(3) “Remember at the dinner scene? Fausto says, “Not in front of my boys”. Alejandro then kills his wife and two sons before he kills Fausto. That was an act of mercy. Fausto showed no mercy towards Alejandro’s wife and daughter. Fausto cut off the head of Alejandro’s wife and threw Alejandro’s daughter in a vat of acid. That is not merely a casual killing; it is gratuitous, premeditated, cold and calculated murder. I know that the drug cartels make billions of dollars off of the drugs that they peddle. But at a deeper level, these drug cartels murder people as a blood sacrifice unto the devil. This blood sacrifice gives them power from the devil–just like their Aztec, Toltec and Mayan forebears.
“There is nothing new under the sun. Fausto was definitely a bloodthirsty psychopath.”
“The time of your devastation and gloom is now here. Your fists in the air will soon be hands digging in the sand for food. Your cities and towns are becoming waste places. Thieves steal your goods and violent crimes are your new allies. Your sex-revolutions are worn-out like an old rag. The sermons of tolerance are thought of as a joke because your hypocrisy knows no end. Your taglines and buzzwords are as empty as your souls. In your closets are found the lives of those you shamed. You got your way, (the destruction of the nation) but the pain is coming to you. Mr. Payback is here and he wants the balance in full with added tariffs, taxes & late fees. The cards you played on your fellow country-men will be the cards you are dealt. What you have put down, you will pick up, full measure. Your sedition and treachery against God against all that is right and good will be met with your turbulence and tribulation. You ‘called down the thunder’ and now you will be thundered upon. The misery you have brought will be your doom. The evil you demanded humans buckle to will be the force that comes upon you. You hear the sound in hell yet, wicked reprobate Leftists? Soon, you will hear non-stop screams and cries of the innocent unborn that you put in the ground. The brutality you forced upon young children in your dens of pedophilia will be your beating received for the destruction of innocence. The trans agenda shoved on parents will be forced upon your Grandchildren who will rise up and kill you.”
Psalm 94:23 “He has brought back their wickedness upon them And will destroy them in their evil; The Lord our God will destroy them.”
Romans 9:22 “What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?”
Psalm 28:5 “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord Nor the deeds of His hands, He will tear them down and not build them up.”
In this dream, it seemed as if I was in California, but I cannot be positive. At any rate, I found myself under the awning of a structure. This awning was made of a substance that was so strong. Stronger than cement. I wondered why I was under this massive canopy of cement. Then, I looked up to the skies and what I saw was too amazing for words. . . In the skies there were MILLIONS of fireballs that were hitting the earth. But here’s the kicker, these fireballs didn’t hit the ground. They hit their targets. NO fireball missed its target. In fact, it seemed as if these fireballs instinctively knew what they were supposed to hit. What did they hit? They hit people who hated God. These people had the colored hair, tattoos, they looked like the hippy Leftists in schools. In fact, most of the people that were BLOWN UP were mostly the Communist, Marxist crowd & wicked reprobates, criminals, rapists, etc.
If a person wandered away from this awning, that person was ALSO hit. These fireballs killed wicked people instantaneously.
Then, after some time, the fireballs stopped. I remember grabbing the hand of a woman who was shaking in fear. I grabbed her hand and told her: “We can go out now”. So, for a short time, we went out and away from the canopy/awnings.
As we walked, I looked yonder and I saw the sea (or water) and it began to swallow up the land. I told the woman who’s hand I was holding: “The waters are now here and we shall now die”. As soon as the waters hit our noses, we were IN HEAVEN! We were all shouting “WE MADE IT, PRAISE THE LORD!” We were all so happy. Joy complete. Then, a calming voice said: “You will now be washed clean from the destruction of the earth”. As soon as that voice said this, silver, liquid, like glitter water came from the heights in Heaven and was cleaning us. This was so wonderful! Then, I awakened.
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This 2nd dream was horrible (as far as these fireballs went) but we were safe as believers under the canopy. Obviously, a spiritual parallel of Gods covering on us thru the terrible tribulation.
In your second dream, the massive canopy of cement was God’s protection from God’s wrath on the wicked. The Presence of God is our best protection. During the first Passover, the blood of the lamb on the doorposts is what saved the Hebrews from the Angel of Death. As believers in Jesus Christ, His precious Blood is why we have access to the Presence of God and protection from God. The fireballs from heaven were surgical airstrikes against the wicked. Our God is a consuming fire.
Isaiah 10:17: “And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.”
Isaiah 66:15-16: “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.”
II Peter 3:7: “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
We know that in the days of Noah, the Lord covered the earth with a great flood that killed off the wicked. When the Lord destroys the wicked the next time it will be by fire–Holy Ghost Fire.
II Thessalonians 1:8-10: “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
If you look at the above scripture, the fire of God’s vengeance comes when He glorifies His saints. This is one of the reasons why I don’t believe in a physical, bodily rapture. When the Lord glorifies our bodies, this is what rapture is–it is spiritual, it is the Holy Ghost Fire glorifying our bodies. I have experienced rapture many times over the years–you bring Heaven to earth. This is how you destroy Satanic strongholds in our bodies (the breaking of curses and deliverance from demons); this is how you destroy Satanic strongholds in the heavenlies (principalities and powers in the Second Heaven). We will be here on earth, doing the will of our Father, when the wicked are destroyed by the Holy Ghost Fire.
Psalm 92:7: “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.”
Exodus 12:12: “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.”
Recently a co-worker flew to Las Vegas to visit some friends. He spent a few days in Las Vegas and said that the pandemic (I call it the fake pandemic) has really devastated the economy of Las Vegas. He said that the casinos are now open three or four days a week. The number of tourists visiting Las Vegas are way down from a year ago.
I had a dream about a Las Vegas earthquake back in 2006. Because of that dream, I thought that someday Las Vegas would have a literal, physical earthquake. Maybe that dream was not about a literal earthquake, but that the Lord would devastate the economy of Las Vegas. I also had a dream in 2017. In that dream, this man walked up to me and gave me a piece of paper with the words: “see ‘las vegas earthquake'”. Because of that dream, I believe that the Lord wanted me to reread and reexamine the Las Vegas Earthquake dream that He gave me in 2006.
Dreams are either literal or figurative. So instead of a literal earthquake destroying Las Vegas, we have a figurative earthquake (fake pandemic) destroying the economy of Las Vegas. And maybe Las Vegas represents the United States. The fake pandemic has devastated the economy and society of the United States.
A friend of mine told me that a spiritual Christian told her that the fake pandemic was God’s judgment on the United States and the world because of abortion. I believe that is true. Mark Taylor, the prophet, said that the fake pandemic is God’s judgment on the church system. I believe that is also true. Many people are not able to go to church on Sunday, so they are having home churches–and that is probably what the Lord wanted all along. The first church buildings weren’t built till around 400 A.D. Too many people think that the church is a physical building. It is not. The church is the people. Too many pastors are pastors of church buildings or church organizations–they are not pastors of the people. John Wesley used to preach on horseback or in the town square. George Fox used to preach out in the country–in the fields and the pastures. Our lives are preaching to others everyday whether we realize it or not. The life in Christ is the sermon. Our lives can be more powerful than words. “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (I Corinthians 4:20)
Numbers 12:6: “And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.”
I Corinthians 13:12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly.”
Auschwitz,
Treblinka,
Buchenwald,
New York:
Unreal.
Child sacrifices unto Baal,
Albany is become Sodom.
The Hudson
Is a river of venom,
In the Valley of Slaughter.
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Recently a law was passed in the state of New York that makes it legal for a mother to abort her child up to the day of delivery. This is one of the most inhumane, cruel and barbaric laws that I have ever heard of.
Nazi Germany killed 6 million Jews in death camps during World War II. The United States has killed over 60 million pre-born babies through abortion since 1973. The United States is worse than Nazi Germany.
Jeremiah 19: 3-5: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind.”
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Dreams from the LORD 2007-2010
1 March 2009
“One of the important things that LaVerle [Van Houten] said was that the Lord told him not to go back to New York City. LaVerle has been to New York several times on mission trips. He told me that a number of prophets have pulled out of New York because people aren’t repenting of sin and destruction is coming.”
I had a dream where I saw the Titanic sailing upon the waters and ultimately hitting an iceberg. In the dream I knew that the Titanic was representative of the church, specifically the church in America. The captain of the Titanic is said to have ignored 6 or 7 warnings regarding icebergs. Remember that it was rumored to have been said of the Titanic that even God could not sink it. But the Titanic did sink by hitting an iceberg in the sea that God created. The captain did not slow down, change course, or stop despite repeated warnings.
The Titanic was to be the most luxurious cruise ship in the world offering every amenity to those who could afford it.
The Laodicean church is rich, increased with goods, having need of nothing. The captain of the Titanic represents the pastor. Those giving him the warnings of impending doom represent the prophets.
The prophets are the eyes which is why they are also called seers. One ignores their warnings at their own peril and also the peril of those under their care.
The waters of God’s judgment caused Noah’s Ark to float. The waters that flooded the Titanic after hitting the iceberg caused it to sink. The water in both cases represent sin’s judgment.
Pride and stubbornness caused the sinking. Pride in that the ship was thought to be unsinkable even by God and stubbornness that even though God in His mercy sent warning after warning of impending disaster, the warnings were ignored.
I am posting a dream from 4 years ago I believe to be related to the above dream.
I had a dream/vision 10/26/2014 . In this dream/vision I saw a bride walking down what looked to be a dirt path. What was strange is that she was blindfolded so obviously she could not see where she was going. I then saw various people with sight trying to take her by the hand to guide her. However, each time anyone tried to guide her, because in this dream/vision I sensed in my spirit that she was heading down the wrong path, she would lash out at them in anger with a knife.
It’s my belief that the bride in this dream/vision represents the church, the bride of Christ. The people sent to guide her back to the right path that had sight are the prophets. In the dream, even though blind, she refused help and lashed out at anyone who tried.
The scriptures that come to mind are:
Matthew 23:37-39 NKJV
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord !’ ”
I will conclude with a quote by A.W. Tozer:
“Let me go out on a limb a little bit and prophesy. I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Holy Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one. The house will be left desolate and there will not be a man of God, a man in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, left among them.”
“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled”
Luke 21:22
Our Obedience and God’s Judgments
“And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled”
2 Corinthians 10:6
Jesus responding to the questions of His disciples concerning His return declared…
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be”
Matthew 24:37
Our obedience must be fulfilled in order to release the judgment of God upon the children of disobedience. Just as the obedience of Noah released the judgment of God in His Day so must it be so in ours. Noah’s obedience was not only the catalyst which released God’s judgment on the earth, it was in fact also the very means of his deliverance. His completion of the work God gave him to accomplish was also God’s provision for him. May the Lord open our eyes to this essential truth for this hour.
“In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark…”
Genesis 7:13
The flood commenced upon the earth WHEN (the selfsame day!) Noah entered the Ark, which was the fulfillment of His obedience to God in his day. Such is the testimony of God concerning Noah…
“Thus did Noah; according to ALL that God commanded him, so did he”
Genesis 6:22
Jesus said His return would be as it was in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37); as Noah had his portion of obedience to fulfill so do we.
“Looking for and hasting* unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless”
2 Peter 3:12-14
Note: * The exposition of the Greek Word translated “hasten”
“…the transitive meaning, hastening on; i.e., “causing the day of the Lord to come more quickly by helping to fulfill those conditions without which it cannot come; that day being no day inexorably fixed, but one the arrival of which it is free to the church to hasten on by faith and by prayer” Vincent Greek Word Studies
“So taken, the thought of the Apostle is that the “day of God” is not immutably fixed by a Divine decree, but may be accelerated by the readiness of His people or of mankind at large” Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
“The preposition “unto” is inserted without authority. The second participle σπεύδοντας is followed directly by the accusative, and is evidently transitive. In the Septuagint Version of Isaiah 16:5, σπεύδων δικαιοσύνην represents the “hasting righteousness” of our translation (comp. Pindar, ‘Isthm.,’ 5:22, where σπεύδειν ἀρετάν means “to pursue virtue”). Here the translation “hastening” is most appropriate. The Father hath put the times and seasons in his own power; but as the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, so now he is “long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish;” and in his gracious mercy waits for the repentance of his chosen. St. Peter seems to represent Christians as “hastening the coming [literally, ‘presence’] of the day of God” by working out their own salvation…” Pulpit Commentary
“Hasting unto.—There is no “unto” in the Greek. The margin is probably right, hasting the coming—i.e., hastening Christ’s coming by holy lives…” Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
Why is it men and women of faith have long seen and understood this truth, yet in our day the day of slumber, God’s people have no understanding that it is their walk, their lives and the holy expressions of the Christ within them functioning and ministering unto one another is what hastens His return. The return of the Lord is not a spectator event, it is one in which we are to be partakers and participants of His Glory. When will we awake out of our slumber to arise unto fulfilling our call in His appearing?
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil…”
Ephesians 5:14-16
This is why Jesus said…
“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father”
Mark 13:32
For Jesus is not only the seed which fell into the ground, He is also the harvest: HE Himself is the precious fruit of the earth in the lives of His people. God is returning for the harvest of a pure and holy people!
“Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until HE receive the early and latter rain”
James 5:7
Please consider the HE in this verse that we may understand the intent of God in this hour.
His Body is involved in HIS return. Let us take heed in this hour!
“…he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”
Proverbs 10:5
“For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled”
Luke 21:22
The last days are days filled with great suffering, unimaginable evil, unspeakable glory, vengeance and retribution. It is a time of the End of things as we know it and the beginning of New things filled with the Reign and Majesty of God. It is a day of endurance, faith, malevolent hatred, and overcoming love.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another”
Daniel 7:2-3
The rising up of these great and evil beasts in the earth is the result of the Spirit of God striving upon the sea of humanity. These beasts are the influences and work of the principalities and powers of wickedness in high places. They ever seek to remain hidden from the eyes of the natural man, their work is insidious and pervasive in their dominion in the affairs of men. Their success in their evil ways is achieved by their staying unseen. It is God who forces these evil beasts into the light to the intent they may be judged.
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light”
Ephesians 5:13
In this day God is moving to bring the hidden things to light. He is allowing the full expression of Evil to be fully manifested to the end that it may be fully judged without remedy. The consequences of this Day are far reaching and the endurance required by the saints of God is well beyond the abilities of human strength and power. Even as Christ overcame through suffering and death so must the Church Triumphant overcome AS He overcame. The beasts that are rising in this day must arise for in the wisdom of God these things must be in order to fully manifest His wisdom, justice and power through His Church. The overcoming life of God in His people is to be displayed in the grand and terrible Day of the Lord.
“Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them…”
Daniel 7:19-21
The Church of Jesus Christ will be fully given over to the power of this beast for a season (as Jesus Himself was delivered over to wickedness) but the final verdict stands sure. The Last Day Church (the true church) must experience the full experiential identification with His death in order to know the fullness of His resurrection. Identification with His death is essential to the knowing of the power of His resurrection (see Philippians 3:10-11).
“But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even for ever and ever”
Daniel 7:18
Why will the saints possess the Kingdom forever? BECAUSE…
“… the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom”
Daniel 7:22
The victory of the Church over the full expression of evil will be the great testimony of the power of God at work in His own. Their victory is in Him arising on their behalf to execute the judgment and the victory of Christ over all darkness.
The Day that is upon us must be faced by an overcoming people whose lives are no longer their own. They have found in Christ a grace which has so worked in them a freedom from their own will, their own ways and their reliance upon the strength and strategy of men.
There is within the ranks of His people in this day a movement to stop this rise of evil by political and carnal means but it will be to no avail. The rise of evil must come for it is in itself the very judgment of God upon the earth (every form of evil has within itself the seeds of its own destruction). The attack on the divine institution of marriage, the rise in sexual perversion and the growing resentment of the world upon all that is right and holy is the very expression of these things being allowed of God for His final victory.
In Romans Paul declares that the propagation of all sexual deviation and unbridled lust IS the judgment of God upon all nations.
“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections…”
Romans 1:26
(Please read the whole context of this verse)
The reason God gives a nation over to these things is because they willfully and arrogantly refused the truth of God within their hearts. It is the great judgment of God on a people and nation.
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened”
Romans 1:21
God’s judgment is already at work within our land. The rise of these things is the clear and evidentiary revelation that His judgments are upon us. The beasts are arising and will continue to arise until the Ancient of Days arises to cause the saints of the Most High God to possess the Kingdom. It is here in this environment where God will unveil a salvation which has been reserved for this Day.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls”
1 Peter 1:3-9
The Day of Vengeance is upon us to the INTENT that ALL things which have been written will be fulfilled. The Day of Vengeance will be completed and brought to its full end when God’s people have come to the fullness of total surrender and submission to Him whereas “they love not their lives unto death”.
To be continued.
Brian Troxel
A note of Thanks to Allan Halton for help on editing.
Some tend to believe God’s only means of judging His creation and doing so in righteousness is via bombastic events that cause the world to pause and take a breath, and makes man realize the utter insignificance of his existence here on earth.
When we think of God’s judgment we tend to gravitate more towards the earthquake which just devastated Nepal than we do about what is happening in America momentarily.
What many fail to realize is that not all of God’s judgments are the same. Yes, there are certain times wherein the judgment of God is like a thunderclap in the silence, but there are also subtler judgments, some we might not even consider or acknowledge as such.
One of the most devastating of God’s judgments and one I have witnessed time and again is that of leaving man to his own devices, machinations, and destructive tendencies. God doesn’t need to throw lightning bolts at most folks to visit judgment upon them; all He needs to do is leave them to do as they will, and that’s judgment enough.
With the removal of light, the mind becomes darkened. Once the mind becomes darkened the choices we make and actions we take become so antithetical to our own self-interests it would make a schizophrenic do a double take.
Reason packs its bags and goes off on a long vacation, common sense has long since left the building, and all we have left is blind rage, anger at anyone and everyone, all because it’s far easier finding someone else to blame for our bad choices and poor decisions than it is to own up to the fact that we are directly responsible for where we find ourselves at any given moment in life.
We look upon the whole of humanity today and realize a vast swath of it is much like the Nebuchadnezzar of old sans the grass eating and sleeping out in the woods. Madness has overtaken men and women of all ages, social standing, and aptitudes, so much so that their singular purpose in life is their gut and their groin.
Hedonism has become the religion of the day, and for the sake of convenience thousands of innocents are slaughtered upon its altars daily, while the gullible and easily culled swallow the ‘choice’ pill as though it has become acceptable in the eyes of both God and men to choose murder on a whim, or because bringing a life into the world would conflict with your plans for the summer.
We are witnessing the beginning of the end, and most of us don’t even know it. What is left but judgment when the whole of man has become but brute beasts who no longer know the meaning of dignity, humanity, or holiness, and whose only god is the reflection staring back at them in the mirror?
Even those who have for long and long cried ‘mercy’ are grudgingly beginning to acknowledge that God’s judgment is justified, deserved, and necessary.
The Road 